Publications

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1998) Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach, with a Forward by Ronald D. Lee, Oxford University Press (226 pages).

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Lee (eds.), Population and Economic Change in East Asia, a supplement to Population and Development Review, 2000 (26).

Anne H. Gauthier, C. Y. Cyrus Chu, and Shripad Tuljapurkar (eds.), Riding the Age Waves: Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations, 2007, by Kluwer.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Yu Understanding Chinese Families (2009) Oxford University Press, 13 Chapters, with a Forward by James J. Heckman.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, P. C. Lee, C. C. Lin and C. F. Lo (2022) Ultimate Economic Conflict between China and Democratic Countries, Routledge.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1986) “Product Differentiation and Preference Structure: A Remark on Hotelling’s Spatial Competition Model,” Academia Economic Papers 14: 199–210.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1987) “The Effect of Social Security on the Steady State Distribution of Consumption,” Journal of Public Economics 34: 189–210. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1987) “The Dynamics of Population Growth, Differential Fertility and Inequality: Note,” American Economic Review 77: 1054–1056. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1988) “Should the Inventory Smoothing Model Be ‘Saved’?” Academia Economic Papers 16: 159–167.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1990) “A Model of Income Tax Evasion with Venal Tax Officials,” Public Finance 45: 392–408.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1990) “An Existence Theorem on the Stationary State of Income Distribution and Population Growth,” International Economic Review 31: 171–185. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1990) “Crime and Punishment with Possible Post-Offense Compromises,” Academia Economic Papers 17: 131–168.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1990) “Plea Bargaining with the IRS,” Journal of Public Economics 41: 319–333. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and H.-W. Koo (1990) “Intergenerational Income-Group Mobility and Differential Fertility,” American Economic Review 80: 1125–1138. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1991) “An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Proceedings in Civil-law Countries,” International Review of Law and Economics 11: 111–116. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1991) “Primogeniture,” Journal of Political Economy 99: 78–99. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and N. Jiang (1993) “Are Fines More Efficient Than Imprisonment?” Journal of Public Economics 51: 391– 413. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1993) “Oscillatory vs. Stationary Enforcement of Law,” International Review of Law and Economics 13: 303–315. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Lee (1994) “Famine, Revolt and the Dynastic Cycle: Population Dynamics in Historic China,” Journal of Population Economics 7: 351–378. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and H.-C. Lu (1995) “Toward a General Analysis of Endogenous Easterlin Cycles,” Journal of Population Economics 8: 35–57. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Y. Qian (1995) “Vicarious Liability Under a Negligence Rule,” International Review of Law and Economics 15: 305–322. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1995) “The Willingness to Pay for Permanent Reductions in Life Risks,” Academia Economic Papers 23: 209–225.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and H.-W. Koo (1995) “Bequest Division and Income Inequality: Comparative Dynamics of Markov Branching Processes,” Economica 62: 423–440. (link)

M. C. Chang, C. Y. Cyrus Chu, and K. L. Lin (1995) “A Note on Least Square Learning Mechanism,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 19: 1293–1296. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1996) “Tax Evasion by Small Businesses: Theory and Empirical Evidence in Taiwan,” Review of Public Economics 1: 157–183.

M. C. Chang, C. Y. Cyrus Chu, and K. L. Lin (1997) “The Minimum Prediction Error Learning Algorithm with Information Feedbacks,” Taiwan Economic Review 25: 473–491.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1997) “Age Distribution Dynamics and Aging Indexes,” Demography 34: 551–563. (link)

K.-P. Chen, H.-K. Chien, and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1997) “Sequential versus Unitary Trials with Incomplete Information,” Journal of Legal Studies 26: 239–258. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and L. Jiang (1997) “Demographic Transition, Family Structure, and Income Inequality,” Review of Economics and Statistics 79: 665–669. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (1997) “Population Density and Infrastructure Development,” Review of Development Economics 1: 294–304. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, H.-W. Koo and T.-Y. Huang (1998) “The Lack of Preference Foundation of the Generalized Entropy Measure,” Academia Economic Papers 26: 331–346.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and H. Lu (1998) “The Multi-store Location Decision of a Spatial Monopoly,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 28: 255–281. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and C. Wang (1998) “Economy of Specialization and Diseconomy of Externalities,” Journal of Public Economics 69: 249–261. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Yu (1998) “Individual Sex Preferences and the Societal Sex Ratio of Newborns,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 194: 383–390. (link)

Tsai, Y., C. Y. Cyrus Chu, and C.-F. Chung (2000) “Demographic Transition and Household Savings in Taiwan,” Population and Development Review 26: S174–193. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, S.-C. Hu, and T.-Y. Huang (2000) “Punishing Repeated Offenders More Severely!” International Review of Law and Economics 20: 127–140. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, M. C. Chang, and K. L. Lin (2000) “Initial Beliefs and the Global Stability of Least Square Learning,” International Review of Economics and Finance 9: 123–137. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Huei-Chung Lu (2000) “Predator-Prey Models with Endogenous Decisions,” Mathematical Population Studies 8: 55–71. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, “Population Dynamics: Theory of Nonstable Population,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001.

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C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ching Tai (2001) “Ecosystem Resilience, Specialized Adaptation and Population Decline: A Modern Malthusian Theory,” Journal of Population Economics 14: 7–19. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Wen-Fang Liu (2001) “A Dynamic Characterization of Rawls’ Maximin Principle,” Constitutional and Political Economy 12: 255–272. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Yu (2002) “Population Dynamics and Biodiversity Decline: A Survey of the Literature,” Population and Development Review 28: S126–143. (link)

Leslie Tan and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2002) “A Generalized Analysis of the Effect of Business Taxes on the Location Choice Under Uncertainty,” Regional Science of Urban Economics 32: 201–219. (link)

Minsheng Chen, C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Huei-chung Lu (2002) “Bequest Division and Population Growth: A Linear Extinction Probability Approach,” Journal of Population Economics 15: 243–259. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2003) “Precedent Externality, Network Effect, and the Possible Inefficiency of the Evolution of Law,” European Journal of  Law and Economics 16: 187–198. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Cheng-ying Huang (2004) “On the Definition and Efficiency of Punitive Damages,” International Review of Law and Economics 24: 241–254. (link)

Kong-pin Chen and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2005) “Internal Control and External Manipulation: A Model of Corporate Income Tax Evasion,” RAND Journal of Economics 36: 151–164. (link)

Wen-Jen Tsay and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2005) “The Pattern of Birth Spacing During Taiwan’s Demographic Transition,” Journal of Population Economics 18: 323–336. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Emerson Niou (2005) “The Strategy of Ambiguity in Electoral Competition,” Academia Economic Papers 33: 279–302. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ronald D. Lee (2006) “The Coevolution of Intergenerational Transfers and Longevity: An Optimal Life History Approach,” Theoretical Population Biology 69: 193–201. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, R. Yu and Yu Xie (2007) “Effect of Sibship Structure Revisited: Evidence from Intra-family Resource Transfer in Taiwan,” Sociology of Education 80: 91–113. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Hung-ken Chien (2007) “Asymmetric Information, Pretrial Negotiation and Optimal Decoupling,” International Review of Law and Economics 27: 312–329. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2008) “Biodiversity Decline and Population Externalities,” Journal of Population Economics 21: 173–181. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-ken Chien, and Ronald Lee (2008) “Explaining the Optimality of U-shaped Age-specific Mortality,” Theoretical Population Biology 73: 171–180. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Yu (2008) “Intergenerational Transmission of Sex-specific Differential Treatments: The Allocation of Education Resources Among Siblings,” Social Science Research 37: 386–399. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Hung-Ken Chien (2008) “Sale or Lease? Durable- Goods Monopoly with Network Effects,” Marketing Science 27: 1012–1019. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2009) “Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy – Review,” Population Studies 63(2): 199—200. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2010) “The Regulation of Structured Debts: Why? What?  And How?” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 3: 443–472. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2010) “A Two-sex Life History Model of Handicap Signaling,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 262: 219—226. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-hen Chien, and Ronald Lee (2010) “The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 76 (3): 451—464. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, R. Yu and Yu Xie (2011) “Co-residence with Elderly  Parents: A Comparative Study of Southeast China and Taiwan,” Journal of Marriage and Family 73 (1): 120—135. (link)

Ronald D. Lee and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2012) “The Evolution of Transfers and Life History,” Experimental Gerontology 47 (10): 803—806. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ronald D. Lee (2012) “Sexual Dimorphism and Sexual Selection: A Unified Economic Analysis,” Theoretical Population Biology 82: 355—363. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ronald D. Lee (2013) “On the Evolution of Intergenerational Division of Labor, Menopause, and Transfers Among Adults and Offspring,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 332: 171—180. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, W. J. Tsay, and Seik Kim (2014) “Co-residence with Husband’s Parents, Labor Supply, and the Duration to First Birth,” Demography 51: 185—204. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Ching-Ching Lai and Chih-Hsing Liao (2014) “How Could the Non-sustainable Easter Island Have Been Sustained?” International Review of Economics and Finance 34: 161—174. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2015) “Warren Buffett versus Muhammud Yunus,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 171 (4): 696—708. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Po-Ching Lee (2018), “Paris Needs Geneva, and Vice Versa”, Global Policy 9 (4): 570-577. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Po-Ching Lee (2019) “Three Changes Unforeseen by WTO Rules Framers Twenty-Five Years Ago,” Journal of World Trade, 53(6), 895-922. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, J. C. Lin, and Kamhon Kan (2019) “Variations of wealth resemblance by family relationship types in modern Chinese families,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(14), 6548-6553. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Po-Ching Lee (2020) “E-commerce Mercantilism – Practices and Causes,” Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 51-66. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, J. C. Lin, and W. J. Tsay (2020) “Males’ Housing Wealth and Their Marriage Market Advantage,” Journal of Population Economics, 33(3): 1005-1023. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Chun-Hui Lu, and C. C. Yang (2020) “On the Efficiency Aspect of Inheritance Taxation,” Academia Economic Papers, 48(2), 151-181. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Yi-Ting Wang (2021) “Gini coefficient versus top income shares – Pattern change differences,” Economics Letters, 201, 109769. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, S. Y. Lin, and W. J. Tsay (2021) “Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Voting when Absentee Voting is not Allowed,” Social Science Quarterly, doi:10.1111/ssqu.13014. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu et al. (2022) “Distributional National Accounts of Taiwan, 1981-2017 ”, World Inequality Database (WID), Taiwan Economic Review, 51(2), 137-181. (link)

Ronald D. Lee and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2023) “Reproduction and Production in a Social Context: Group Size, Reproductive Skew, and Increasing Returns,” Ecology Letters, 26, 219-231. (link)

Ronald Lee and C. Y. Cyrus Chu (2022) “Theoretical perspectives on reproductive aging”, Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.934732. (link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Yi-Ting Wang (2023) “The Gender Gap in the Ownership of Promising Land", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  120 (24) e2300189120. (link)

Chu, C. Y., Chang, J., & Lin, C. (2025). “Why does AI hinder democratization?", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(19), e2423266122.(link)

Chu, C. Y., Lin, C., Lu, S., & Kao, C. (2025). “Parental mixed-gender preferences revealed by IVF twin births”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(24), e2426838122.(link)

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, “An Income-Specific Stable Population Model: Theory and Applications,” in Research in Population Economics, Vol. 6, T. Paul Schultz (ed.), JAI Press, 1988: 337–366.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu, “Commentary on ‘Analyzing Income Tax Evasion Using Amnesty Data with Self-selection,” in Why People Pay Taxes: Tax Compliance and Enforcement, Joel Slemrod (ed.), University of Michigan Press, 1992, 190–192.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Y.-C. Tsai, “Productivity, Investment in Infrastructure, and Population Size: Formalizing the Theory of Ester Boserup,” in Increasing Return and Economic Analysis, K. Arrow et al. (eds.), 1998. New York: McMillan.

R. P. C. Cheng and C. Y. Cyrus Chu, “Estimating the Intergenerational Income Mobility Matrix Using Pseudo Panel Data,” in Essays on Economic Development in Memory of John Fei, eds. by Gustav Ranis et al., 1998.

Tain-Jy Chen and C. Y. Cyrus Chu, in Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Muthiah Alagappa, 2001. New York: M. E. Sharpe.

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and R. Yu, “Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers,” in Riding the Age Waves: Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations, 2007, by Kluwer.